Today I read a tweet from @ozpoems about a blog “An Australian Poem a Day“. Inspired by the National Year of Reading, this site promises to post a poem by an Australian poet each day.

Reading some of these poems reminded me of the joy of reading kids’ poetry out loud. Reciting poems is a great tool for voice training as well as entertaining others. A greater challenge is to memorise poems so you can recite them anywhere.

In the meantime I am going to save my favourite poems in a Word document than make a PDF or ebook to keep on my phone. Then I will have a treasure chest of Australian poetry for reading wherever I go with my phone.

I particularly enjoyed this poem featuring a variety of Australian place names: